Hitler's Secret

Tom Wilde, Book 4

By: Rory Clements

Narrated by: Adam Sims

Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

The most anticipated spy thriller of 2020, from the Sunday Times best-selling author of Corpus.

Autumn 1941. The war is going badly for Britain and its allies. If Hitler is to be stopped, a new weapon is desperately needed.

In Cambridge, professor Tom Wilde is approached by an American intelligence officer who claims to know of such a weapon - one so secret even Hitler himself isn't aware of its existence. If Wilde can smuggle the package out of Germany, the Third Reich will surely fall.

But it is only when he is deep behind enemy lines that Wilde discovers why the Nazis are so desperate to prevent the 'package' falling into Allied hands. And as ruthless killers hunt him through Europe, a treacherous question hangs over the mission: if Hitler's secret will win them the war, why is Wilde convinced it must remain hidden?

Dramatic, intelligent and utterly compelling, Hitler's Secret is the breakout spy thriller of the year from the award-winning author of Corpus and Nucleus - perfect for listeners of Robert Harris, C J Sansom and Joseph Kanon.

©2019 Rory Clements (P)2019 Bonnier Books UK

Many Will Die To Keep It.

Anyone who enjoys espionage novels and thrillers will appreciate this. Those who are well read on 20th century history and World War 2 will find even more to take away from this well constructed and plotted book.
I stumbled across HITLER’S SECRET, which is the fourth in the Tom Wilde series, and am delighted I read this, rather than waiting until I had read number one, CORPUS.
It is early in the war with Germany and Tom Wilde, a Cambridge professor, is recruited to travel to Europe to secure a secret “package” and bring it back to England. Not even Hitler knows of it, but if Britain can secure it, the tide of the war, which is going badly, could be turned.
Once he has achieved his objective the real challenge begins for Wilde as he endeavours to stay ahead of the Nazis, who will eliminate anyone who knows the truth. Even when he is back on English soil, because of other agendas and the evil antagonist closing in, it still may disappear into the wisps of an English fog.
This is lean writing at its best, depicting the “worst of times”, the men and women who perpetrated the horrors and those who stood against them. The characterization is excellent, the plotting complex with many credible twists, a powerful climax and a satisfying denouement, just the meal admirers of Robert Harris, Joseph Kanon, Alex Gerlis and Frederick Forsyth will be pleased to enjoy.
Adam Sims is a fine narrator, capturing the class differences in Britain and the differing accents across Europe.
Highly recommended. Happy reading, Eric.

Great reading, excellent data

Enjoyed listening this book very much! Only thing I would recommend is to more clearly group events and divide them into chapters. Often the reading would go from acute event with Clara to let’s completely different moment which seemed to be in the same paragraph. If the listener was not paying a great attention, would be very easy to get lost in the story.

great read

such a fascinating look into some ordinary people around Hitler and in Germany during WWII.

A wonderful book!

This is outstanding historical spy fiction. One of my favorites and I read and listen a lot to both genres—historical and espionage fiction. It is so very welcome in our cynical age to read about principled characters who do principled deeds. This book’s premise is very interesting and the author delivers on it. Excellent narration as well. This book will not disappoint. On to finding other books by this author!

Excellent well-written soul-wrenching depiction

of the savage evil Hitler wrought from 1933 to 1945. How agonizing it is indeed to be faced with the fact that the grotesque ignorant antiSemite racist social and political underbelly Trump has unleashed demonstrates that we have not learned the Most Important moral lessons from the horrors of WWII.

Nice surprise

Good story. Narration was great. Good characters. This was book. I will try earlier books.

Riveting!

I simply couldn’t find enough excuses to sit quietly and listen with rapt attention to this story. Thank you so much for the excellent pace, exciting topic all the while keeping an authentic atmosphere throughout the story. Congratulations for creating this great read!!!

A Great Thriller With Multiple Plot Lines

Set in WWII, where good and evil seem so well defined, characters are involved in a tangled web where.it is not so easily defined. Excellent book!

Different and very well done.

Seemed real and nothing got so far out there that it didn’t make sense. Hard to track all the characters at times. Reader did a great job with all the characters.

Enjoyed it

It's been awhile since I've read a historic fiction that took me to that time so effortlessly but also had a white knuckle plot that held me. Having been born in 1941 the war is still alive to me and this book just felt right. Recommend it highly.